Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comes to us with the sword...
...months since V-J day the uniformed groom had all but vanished, taking with him a dress sword made gooey by wedding-cake icing. But thousands of other props which had been abandoned during the war were back again. From Westchester County to the Monterey Peninsula, from Philadelphia's Main Line to Miami's palm-bordered mansions, society weddings were being planned, costumed and produced as ponderously as musical comedies...
...court and guests proceeded to Marka airfield to review Trans-Jordan's British-trained Arab Legion. Its leader, Glubb Pasha (occidental title: Brigadier John Bagot Glubb, D.S.O., O.B.E.) stood next to His Majesty on the sun-scathed reviewing stand, picturesquely martial in a spiked helmet, with a long sword by his side. After the two-hour parade, everybody had lunch (main course: 56 whole roast sheep), while Trans-Jordan's masses launched on a three-day fete involving much shooting, soothsaying, and the consumption of vast quantities of stuffed peppers with soda...
...sweeps all before him except the final prize, the ivory-fair Roxane. His winning love speeches he puts into the mouth of a handsome dolt, for her sake. The motif is noble, yet it shrinks to the simple moral that it takes more than a sharp tongue, a sharper sword, and a magnificent soul to convince the right woman. This is not sound, inspired drama, nor is Rostand to be rated as a major dramatic poet. But the theatre thrives on striking situations and instantaneous effects, and of these Rostand is the master...
...Sword. During the war, while his wife worked for OWI, Carter launched Yank and Stars and Stripes in the Middle East. He found time to write Winds of Fear, a novel attacking small-town Negro-phobes; and Lower Mississippi, for the Rivers of America series. He came out of the Army a major in Intelligence...